Pablo Picasso - Portrait d'Angel Fernández de Soto 1899
Portrait d'Angel Fernández de Soto 1899
61x54cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 3.36 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 16 November 2016
Seller: Gallery Suzuki, Tokyo
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
This portrait of Soto, darkly serious, may seem to anticipate the pathos of the Blue period some two years hence.